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JANUARY, 1973
Crescent moon of the third day of the bright fortnight had arisen in the sky behind the rows of tamarisk trees outside the window. From that thin darkness came the rebuke-'the outward beauty is all a camouflage. Covered by it are fat, flesh, marrow and blood, which are as ghastly as they are unbearable.'
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At Malli's words, the kings of Kasi, Kosala, Anga, Kunala, Kuru and Pancala had the memory of their past life revived. In the previous birth, they started together on the path of liberation. On the same path they had met again. Entitled were they to an endless and infinite bliss. Then why this craze for something that would not establish them in that? They all, including Malli, renounced the world.
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